Low Carbs: High Profits and High Risk

Here is the basic physIological fact that all of your low-carbohydrate diets miss: no matter what type of low-carb diet that you are currently following, it is most probably a high- fat diet. When you eat a low-carb, high-fat diet, all of the.excess fat calories that you eat are stored in fat cells and end up staying there indefinitely.

So the more fat that you eat, the more fat your body retains. This occurs no matter how much you restrict your carbs. Actually, the more you limit your carb intake, the more fat you will consume. These diets are filled with fat, fat and more fat that not only fills your face, abdomen, thighs, and buttocks with fat, but also clogs up your arteries with cholesterol.

However; when you consume complex carbohydrates (these are the good carbohydrates with a low glycemic index), your body expends 2 1/2 times more energy converting dietary complex carbohydrates from your intestines into your bloodstream for immediate use, and then into glycogen storage in your muscles and liver:than it takes to convert fat into a source of fuel for energy production.

In other words, this means that a high complex-carbohydrate, low-fat diet causes your body to work harder after each meal, burning calories for energy, than does a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. This means that your basal metabolic rate (the rate at which your body operates all of its functions) is considerably higher on a high complex-carbohydrate, low-fat diet. This actually

results in a higher basal metabolic rate, which, in turn, results in an additional burning of approximately 250 calories daily by the simple thermic effect of converting carbohydrates into energy.

So low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets are extremely high in saturated fats (bad fats), and, in general are unsafe and unhealthy. Low-fat diets, however, combined with complex carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, whole-grain breads and cereals) in the diet, are healthy, safe and effective diets, and result in fast, permanent weight-loss, with no hazardous side effects.

The Partnership for Essential Nutrition cautions that low-carbo環ydrate diets can actually starve the brain of carbohydrates, which results in reduced energy levels and causes difficulty in concentrating. These low璫arbohydrate diets can also increase the risk of kidney and liver disorders, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, gout and several forms of cancer. Many other health

organizations have recently issued reports to dispel the misconceptions about low carbohydrate diets and to warn about the risks involved in their long-term use. These low-carb diets conflict with decades of proven scientific research that encourages the reduction of saturated fat and the increase of fruits, vegetables and whole grains in Our diets. There is virtually no scientific basis for the simplistic be lief that individuals can lose weight safely and permanently by reducing one food group (carbohydrates) trom their diets. Unfortunately, the high profits garnered by the promoters of low-carb diets have resulted in significant health risks for the actual dieters.

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